World champion Russian figure skaters aboard flight involved in midair collision, Kremlin says

Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov were a Russian fig skating brace who competed successful aggregate Olympic Games and medaled successful aggregate satellite championships.

The Kremlin said Thursday the fig skating stars were among those aboard an American Airlines formation that collided with a U.S. Army chopper adjacent Reagan International Airport connected Wednesday night.

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Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Shishkova and Naumov were connected the plane.

"Unfortunately, we spot that this bittersweet accusation is being confirmed. There were different chap citizens there. Bad quality contiguous from Washington. We are atrocious and nonstop condolences to the families and friends who mislaid those of our chap citizens who died successful the level crash," helium said.

It was Naumov’s manager who introduced the brace successful 1985, wanting them to enactment unneurotic contempt Naumov rebuffing the thought astatine first. They began to enactment unneurotic successful 1987 and competed and won bronze successful the 1991 European Championships portion representing the erstwhile Soviet Union. The brace would spell connected to triumph 2 much bronze and metallic medals successful the event.

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Shishkova and Naumov earned accolades connected the satellite signifier arsenic well. At the 1993 World Championships, the 2 earned a bronze medal. The pursuing twelvemonth successful Chiba, Japan, the 2 picked up their archetypal golden medal. They finished with a metallic successful 1995 successful Birmingham, United Kingdom.

The brace competed successful the 1992 Olympics successful Albertville, France, and the 1994 Olympics successful Lillehammer, Norway. They finished successful 5th successful 1992 and 4th successful 1994.

Shishkova and Naumov joined successful Saint Petersburg, Russia, successful 1995, and they moved to Connecticut. They had a son, Maxim, who competed successful men’s singles successful the U.S.

The Russian brace were listed arsenic nonrecreational pairs coaches connected the Skating Club of Boston’s website.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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